Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public...
Ars Technica has a story on this week's Intelligence & National Security Summit, where CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey had a lot to say about the resistance of the American public to government cyber spying and anti-encryption efforts.Blaming resistance on "people who are trying to undermine" the intelligence mission of the NSA, CIA, and FBI, John Brennan explained it was all a "misunderstanding.
" Comey explained that "venom and deep cynicism" prevented rational debate of his campaign for cryptographic backdoors.
Gee they don't get it.
We don't belong to them!!!
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A small library in New Hampshire would be used as a Tor exit relay.
Shortly after the project went live, the local police department received an email from the Department of Homeland Security.
The police then met with city officials and discussed all the ways criminals could make use of the relay. They ultimately decided to suspend the project, pending a vote of the library board of trustees on Sept. 15.
DHS spokesman Shawn Neudauer said the agent was simply providing "visibility/situational awareness," and did not have any direct contact with the Lebanon police or library. "
The use of a Tor browser is not, in [or] of itself, illegal and there are legitimate purposes for its use," Neudauer said, "However, the protections that Tor offers can be attractive to criminal enterprises or actors and HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] will continue to pursue those individuals who seek to use the anonymizing technology to further their illicit activity."
...Deputy City Manager Paula Maville said that when she learned about Tor at the meeting with the police and the librarians, she was concerned about the service’s association with criminal activities such as pornography and drug trafficking.
"That is a concern from a public relations perspective and we wanted to get those concerns on the table," she said.
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The push for greater cooperation with tech companies has been a big theme for the DOD in the last year, but many big tech companies so far have been wary of the government's overtures following NSA spying revelations.
Now, the government is taking a more 'if you can't join them, build your own' approach.
The U.S. Department of Defense is considering offering rapid seed funding to private companies as a way to encourage more work on technology projects with the commercial sector, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Wednesday.
'The DOD has to tap into all the streams of innovation and emerging technology and it has to do so much more quickly.'
Let's see...a back door into your bios. A back door into your CPU.
A back door in your motherboard.
A back door in your cd/dvd rom.
A back door into your memory chips.
A back door into your modem/router...
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